economic performance of net commodity exporters during the 2000s

... grandmother of ninety-three stopped, out of breath They are also much more vexed by the disrespect of the young people who have gone by them, than they are by the spiteful yelping of the old whom they ... urging them to it; you would have thought they were setting out for the Olympian games It was the same with the young men on the other side of the Rhine, and there as here, they were escorted by their ... only the top of the plant, that nine-tenths are buried, the feet held by those of other plants This profound, or lower, region of the soul is ordinarily below the threshold of consciousness, the...

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... indicate the position and orientation of the primers Bold font represents the sequence of mature miR9* and italic fonts the sequence of mature miR9 (C) RT-PCR analysis of pri-miR9s during the neuronal ... vivo imaging of gene expression of endogenous pri-miR9 during neurogenesis To image in vivo the endogenous expression of the pri-miR9 in small animals, 2.5 · 106 of P19 cells bearing the miR9-1PN3_Fluc ... differentiation (A) The chromosomal region of has-primiR9-1 (B) Schematic diagram of the upstream region of pri-miR9-1 fused to a promoterless FLuc reporter vector The promoter sizes of the construct...

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... www.migrationpolicy.org/integration The Economic Value of Citizenship for Immigrants in the United States 19 The Migration Policy Institute is a nonprofit , nonpar tisan think tank dedicated to the study of the movement of people ... English language proficiency, lack of knowledge about the application process, and the cost of applying, which at $680 is higher than in most other OECD countries The Economic Value of Citizenship ... permanent residents is the employer’s failure to accept qualifying documentation as proof of The Economic Value of Citizenship for Immigrants in the United States as a signal of better social and...

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... in the quality of work The Conference Board, in a recent survey of 41 companies that offer literacy skills training to their employees, found that these direct benefits are just the tip of the ... discussed the impact on their organizations The Conference Board of Canada, Performance and Potential: Assessing Canada's Social and Economic Performance (Ottawa: The Conference Board of Canada, ... literacy skills.2 The shape of the profiles reflects the fact that, on average, workers earn less income at the beginning of their career and nearing retirement Throughout this section, the term 'low'...

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... governmental bodies and other sectors of the economy This chapter extends the analysis of the economic value of public libraries to the market value of services provided to the citizens of Wisconsin by ... measured the economic impact of public and academic libraries on the Indiana economy The study measured the direct economic impact of library spending and the indirect impact of that spending The ... function of the time spent per transaction and the intrinsic value of the time of the librarian answering the reference request In most other statewide library impact studies, the value of a reference...

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... management of the state; iii) to enhance foreign economic efficiency on the basis of expanding economic cooperation to the countries in the region and the world; and iv) to democratize all fields of the ... import of inputs With the effectiveness of the first foreign investment law, the FDI was blooming in Vietnam during 1990s (Table 2) 3.2 The consequences of economic reforms on macroeconomic performance ... forward the orientation and tasks for the period thereafter The major setbacks for the economy in the end of 1980s and early 1990s were the protracted economic embargo imposed by the US while the...

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... to the quantiles of the standard normal distribution The quality of the approximation depends on the values of the parameters N Y,, the number of rated entities with the same rating grade at the ... “Competitiveness and the export performance of the euro area”, by a Task Force of the Monetary Policy Committee of the European System of Central Banks, June 2005 31 “Regional monetary integration in the member ... should therefore combine the variance of the ex-ante estimated probability of default of the rating source and that of the benchmark in one measure in order to conduct the backtesting The difference...

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... funds in the period 1994-2003 using the same measure of performance Neither of these studies documents statistically significant differences in performance Both the approach and the results of our ... as the minimum of aggregated sales and aggregated purchases of securities, divided by the average 12-month total net assets of the fund Net returns are the fund’s annual returns computed as the ... companies, out of a sample of thousands of US companies Therefore, at least part of our sample of SRI mutual funds may face only minor restrictions on their investment policies The fraction of “sin”...

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... with the use of these assays leading to a growing movement for the use of commercial molecular diagnostics [5,6] The purpose of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of the ... fluorescence technology of the Luminex platform, or as a result of differences in PCR efficiencies between the two systems Despite the difference in LOD, the sensitivity of the CombiMatrix system ... rhinovirus (1/50) Compared to the Luminex RVP assay, the sensitivity of the CombiMatrix influenza detection system for the detection of an influenza A subtype (either H1 or H3) was 95.2% (Table...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... did most of the drafting of the first draft of the manuscript with assistance from NW All authors then contributed to further re-drafting of the manuscript and have given approval of the final ... modelling of these data to understand better the transmission dynamics of the 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand Methods Data The population of the Featherston Military Camp was that of a large ... 1918 from all causes as reported by the Principal Medical Officer at the camp [3] Further examination of data on the cause of death and date -of- death suggests the total mortality attributable to...

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... other minor modifications to the model are described in the Appendix 2.2 – Logarithmic Gains: Measurements of the Sensitivity of the Model One of the most widely used quantitative criteria of ... with respect to their 11 hr values, the KM's of SPT with respect to serine and palmitoyl-CoA are close to the cell levels of these metabolites, and therefore the concentrations of the substrates ... et al [2] Another possibility is the need to include in the model the exogenous trafficking of sphingoid bases that potentially contribute to their levels, as well as the levels of the sphingoid...

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... which the most rapid turnover of mRNA occurs early in the IDC, the actual protein expression profiles of these components remain to be measured Furthermore, the expression of the proteins themselves ... linked to the observed lengthening of half-life during the IDC We attempted 3'-RACE on these genes, but because of the extreme A/T richness of P falciparum UTRs, we cannot 40 reviews The half-lives ... straightforward mechanism that could explain the global lengthening of half-lives would include the developmental regulation of the decay components themselves Indeed, all of the decay components measured by...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:22

... method THE MEANING OF SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF THE DISSERTATION - The thesis successor, supplement and further clarify the basis of the theory and practice of economic development in the period of ... the process of increasing in all aspects of the economy ,the process of improving in both quantity and quality,including the increase in the total income of the economy and the level of per capita ... income, the changes in economic structure”.Two basic contents are reflected in the economic development of the project is to increase the size of the economy and GDP / person and the economic...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2014, 12:01

... and other documents, especially the minutes and documents relating to the General Meeting of Shareholders, the company Articles of Association, and from the public media and other sources of public ... was the equitable treatment of shareholders with an overall level of compliance of 65.1% Other areas achieved a level of compliance of less than 50% This may very well be the reason why there ... ROE of 23.5%, compare with the companies with lower corporate governance with ROE of 16.6% The results of the ROA ratios revealed a similar picture with the ROE ratios In addition, the score of...

Ngày tải lên: 02/01/2015, 17:33

... and other documents, especially the minutes and documents relating to the General Meeting of Shareholders, the company Articles of Association, and from the public media and other sources of public ... was the equitable treatment of shareholders with an overall level of compliance of 65.1% Other areas achieved a level of compliance of less than 50% This may very well be the reason why there ... ROE of 23.5%, compare with the companies with lower corporate governance with ROE of 16.6% The results of the ROA ratios revealed a similar picture with the ROE ratios In addition, the score of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:47

... ROE of 23.5%, compare with the companies with lower corporate governance with ROE of 16.6% The results of the ROA ratios revealed a similar picture with the ROE ratios In addition, the score of ... Bernard Madoff Investment Securities… The result is loss of investor confidence in financial markets and a fall in the market value of shares The downturn in the domestic corporate sector performance ... represent some 90% of the total market capitalization of these exchanges The companies were assessed against the five key areas, which are recognized by the OECD Principles as the keys to good...

Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2015, 08:42

... estimates of the impact of liberalization of the agricultural sector (Huang and Rozelle, 2002) and the service sectors in China (Francois, 2002) In the next section of the paper, we examine some of the ... levels, the liberalization of the service sectors, the continued restructuring of the automobile sector, the removal of the quotas on China’s clothing and textiles exports, and the removal of China’s ... gain some indication of the likely impacts of improving the access of rural people to education is to consider the impact of increases in skill levels on the performance of the Chinese economy...

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... documents, the evaluation report follows the logic established in article 16 of the Treaty: first an assessment of the evolution of the legislative framework and of the market performance of services of ... competition for urban transport They see a risk of confusion, for example, as regards the pricing system or the organisation of the network Therefore, they expect the activities of the various operators ... EVALUATION OF THE PERFORMANCE OF NETWORK INDUSTRIES PROVIDING SERVICES OF GENERAL ECONOMIC INTEREST 2004 report Working paper of the services of Mr Almunia and Mr Bolkestein in cooperation with the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 07:20

... display the VR environment [9] The subjects were asked to place their hands on the table with the palms facing downwards, and faced the monitor at a distance of approximately 70 cm The image on the ... Further, the Δ[O2Hb] in the right hemisphere during movement of the subjects’ left hand (i.e the non-dominant, contralateral hand) is considerably larger than that in the left hemisphere during ... methods such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), they offer the advantage of portable systems and, in theory, insensitivity to electromagnetic fields and ferromagnetic materials In this...

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